Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Φωσφόρος m

1. the star that brings the light; a name for planet Venus.

   πέντε δ΄ αἱ τῶν πλανωμένων ἄστρων περίοδοι γεγόνασιν͵ Ἡλίου καὶ Φωσφόρου καὶ Στίλβωνος ὁμοδρομούντων (Plutarchus, De defectu oraculorum, 430a)

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φαοσφόρος ‎(phaosphóros) (Poetic)
• φαεσφόρος ‎(phaesphóros)

Adjective

φωσφόρος • ‎(phōsphóros) m, f ‎(neuter φωσφόρον); second declension

1. That which brings light, light bearing
2. torch bearing (often as an epithet of a god or priestess)

Inflection

References

• φωσφόρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φωσφόρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φωσφόρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G5459”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • light idem, page 490.

Greek

Alternative forms

• φώσφορος ‎(fósforos)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φωσφόρος ‎(phōsphóros)

Noun

φωσφόρος • ‎(fosfóros) m

1. (chemistry) phosphorus, the chemical element (symbol P)

Declension

Coordinate terms

• Appendix:Greek names for chemical elements

External links

• φωσφόρος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el